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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Thomson Gale on December 18, 2006. The length of the article is 955 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: McCarty Company focuses on providing long-term value in what they design and build.(Focus: Contractors & Projects)(McCarty Architects P.A.'s Richard McCarty)(Company overview)
Author: Becky Gillette
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Date: December 18, 2006
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Volume: 28Issue: 51Page: S15(2)

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Publisher: Chicago, Ill., The Radford Architectural CompanyPublication date: 1908Subjects: BungalowsNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Title: Lumberman's House Plan Book : Being a Collection of One Hundred Absolutely New and Attractive Plans Never Before Published, Together With a Selection of One Hundred of Our Most Popular Houses Published Heretofore: 200 House PlansPublisher: Chicago, Ill. : Radford Architectural Co.Publication date: 1907Subjects: Architecture, DomesticArchitecture, DomesticNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Practice Matters is a compilation of Architectural Record magazine's monthly column on architecture firm management. It gives professionals the latest perspectives and advice on human resources, legal issues, firm culture, marketing, project delivery, and management techniques. The topics chosen for Practice Mattes are based on our Architectural Record's observations of what architects need to now to run their businesses at any given time. The articles in this edition were produced during the most prosperous period in the history of the profession. The writers of Practice Matters include Architectural Record's editorial staff members, professional consultants, and freelance reporters who are employed by the magazine. Information about them is included at the end of this Kindle edition. Architectural Record is the world's most widely read professional journal for architects. It has been published continuously since 1891. The magazine is published by McGraw-Hill Construction Media, and is owned by The McGraw-Hill Companies.

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Inexpensive reprint of rare catalog of 208 designs, including artist’s rendering of each completed dwelling, along with overall dimensions and floor plans (including interior measurements). Indispensable resource for architects, historians, restorationists, preservationists and any lover of the coziness, warmth, informality and time-honored appeal embodied in the bungalow.
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Customer Reviews (3)

Radford Book
I found this book to be of little use. In fact, I looked through it in about 10 minutes and have not picked it up since.

Had it not been so inexpensive I would have sent it back.

Lots of variety, no photographs
Radford's Artistic Bungalows is one of a series of books from Dover (publishers) about house plans. These books are actually exact reprints of original plan books from the turn of the century (1880-1925, roughly). Dover adds little or no modern explanations, just presenting the catalog as it was. So when one looks to review these books, one isn't really judging the modern-day publisher, or editing, or writing. The only modern element is the accuracy of reproduction- in some cases, if pages in the originals that Dover found are damaged or torn, that page is reproduced in the original with the tear, smudge, blot, or hole showing. So to judge the books, one has to compare each one to others of its kind, and then to decide whether the material in it is thorough and complete according to the standards of its time. Since there are several dozen of these catalogs published by Dover, we have the basis for such a comparison.

So how does this one shape up compared to, say "California Bungalows of the Twenties" or "Craftsman Bungalows"? Well, there's very little text. Other than an introduction (from the original catalog maker), there is no descriptive text accompanying each house plan. In fact, the same boilerplate paragraph about what the blueprints and specifications include is the only text on each page, other than the house dimensions and the price of the plans. Then, there's no suggestions for furnishing, for colors to paint the house, or for what kind of lot or location the house might be best suited for. Many other catalogs include this kind of description. The illustrations of each house are elaborate drawings/paintings, presented at an angle view. Some catalogs present many of their houses face-on, which means you can't visualize what the sides really look like; the views in this catalog give you an idea of the front and at least one side in every case. There are no photos, and no illustrations of any of the interior of the house, nor of any of the specific styles of built-ins available. Some catalogs show a typical bathroom, a typical living room, etc., and have a few pages showing the styles of kitchen cabinets available; this one doesn't.

On the other hand, this catalog includes a wider variety of architectural styles than the title might suggest, and some of the most interesting exteriors I've seen. Our own house, built in 1919, has curved eaves on the gables meeting curved eaves on the main roof, and we've always wondered whether the architect was on drugs. Now we know that he may have gotten his inspiration from Radford; several of the houses in this book have curved eaves meeting each other. Haven't seen that in other catalogs. The book has a wide definition of what's a bungalow, so there are houses with gambrel roofs, 3-room cottages, and 9-room expensive houses with servants' quarters. One interesting thing about the Radford plans is that, although published in 1908, virtually all of the houses have indoor bathrooms - only 2 plans in the whole book, that I recall, don't have an indoor bathroom. In 1908, that's unusual -many other contemporary plan books have as much as a quarter to a third of their models without a complete indoor bathroom or even an indoor toilet. Not only that, many of Radford's houses have both an upstairs full bath and a downstairs half-bath (toilet and sink) - almost unheard of at the time! So the architects were apparently fairly forward-thinking. A few houses even have two full baths, a feature that otherwise wouldn't become common until 40 years later.

The floor plans are, for the most part, large enough to be clearly readable, and there are only a couple of cases where the architects have left off the dimensions of a room. Ceiling beams, pull-out beds, built-in seats and benches and shelves, are all indicated on the floor plans.

In sum: good variety of exteriors and floor plans, some advanced features for the time; poor in its lack of interior illustrations or actual photos of completed houses. This shouldn't be your only plan book - there are others with lots more detail if you are just getting acquainted with the genre - but if you are collecting several such books, then this one is a nice addition to the variety in your collection.

Fascinating look back....
I'm obsessed with bungalows and cottages, so I found this book a wonderful resource.Some of the designs and plans shown were absolutely bizarre...I'm always looking for local examples to examine.I also lovedthe practical use of space and simple designs, like smaller bathrooms andlarger living areas.Call me crazy but these houses have twice the charmof the monstrosities being erected today.If you tend to wax nostalgic, Irecommend adding this book to your home library. ... Read more